To:HIS MOTHER

Written:Written May 20, 1895Published:First published in 1929 in the JournalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 11.

      Sent from Switzerland to Moscow.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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Iwrote the last letter on the way here. Now I have settled
down in one place. I do not think, however, that it will
be for long as I shall be moving on somewhere.

Thescenery here is splendid, I am enjoying it all the
time. The Alps began immediately after the little German
station I wrote to you from; then came the lakes and I
could not tear myself away from the window of the railway
carriage; if I could find out something about local
conditions and prices (one could surely put up cheaply in the
country districts) it would perhaps be possible to spend the
summer here. The fare is not much and the scenery is splendid.

Ihave seen my god-daughter and her
family.[3]We
spoke, incidentally, on the subject of prices which Mark
raised.[1]It seems that servants are very expensive here—
25 to 30 francs a month, all found—and they have to be
fed well.

Haveyou found a place for the summer at last? I do
not need the address, I suppose, because I can always write
to Mark, but I should
like....[2]

[1]*Iam now fixed up... (The continuation of the footnote was on
the second page of the letter which has been lost.—Ed.)—Lenin

[2]Therest of the letter has been lost.—Ed.

[3]Thisrefers to Anna, the two-year-old daughter of A.A. Schucht
whose family was in Geneva at the time. Lenin had known the
Schucht family in Samara.